Tested & ranked
5 prompts · 10 models · three verdicts · Last updated Oct 5, 2026
Rooms and buildings: straight lines, real materials, believable light and scale.
Short answer
The best AI image model for interior & architecture (tested Oct 5, 2026) is Seedream 5.0 Pro, scoring 4.7/5 across 5 prompts at $0.101 per image. Krea 2 Turbo is the best value: 4.0/5 for $0.0080 per image. It is also the fastest, with a median 2.8 s from request to finished image. We sent the same prompts with the same settings to all 10 models.
Last tested
| # | Model | Editor | AI judge | Community | $/image | Time to image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seedream 5.0 ProByteDance | pending | 4.7 | soon | $0.101 | 31.6 s |
| 2 | Grok Imagine 2.0xAI | pending | 4.6 | soon | $0.060 | 87.4 s |
| 3 | Nano Banana ProGoogle | pending | 4.6 | soon | $0.150 | 21.4 s |
| 4 | Recraft V4.1Recraft | pending | 4.5 | soon | $0.035 | 9.5 s |
| 5 | GPT Image 2OpenAI | pending | 4.5 | soon | $0.171 | 88.5 s |
| 6 | FLUX.2 [pro]Black Forest Labs | pending | 4.4 | soon | $0.030 | 11.2 s |
| 7 | Qwen Image 3Alibaba | pending | 4.2 | soon | $0.040 | 39.8 s |
| 8 | Ideogram V4.5Ideogram | pending | 4.0 | soon | $0.060 | 8.5 s |
| 9 | Krea 2 TurboKrea | pending | 4.0 | soon | $0.0080 | 2.8 s1.0 s generating |
| 10 | FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs | pending | 3.9 | soon | $0.012 | 6.1 s2.9 s generating |
Ranked by the editor score once every model is editor-scored, otherwise by the AI judge. How we test
Each dot is a model: higher is better, further left is cheaper.
| Model | Score | Price per image |
|---|---|---|
| Seedream 5.0 Pro | 4.67 | $0.1 |
| Grok Imagine 2.0 | 4.62 | $0.06 |
| Nano Banana Pro | 4.58 | $0.15 |
| Recraft V4.1 | 4.55 | $0.04 |
| GPT Image 2 | 4.55 | $0.17 |
| FLUX.2 [pro] | 4.42 | $0.03 |
| Qwen Image 3 | 4.22 | $0.04 |
| Ideogram V4.5 | 4.02 | $0.06 |
| Krea 2 Turbo | 3.95 | $0.008 |
| FLUX.2 [dev] | 3.92 | $0.01 |
Median wait per image, including queue time: higher is better, further left is faster.
| Model | Score | Time to image |
|---|---|---|
| Seedream 5.0 Pro | 4.67 | 32 s |
| Grok Imagine 2.0 | 4.62 | 87 s |
| Nano Banana Pro | 4.58 | 21 s |
| Recraft V4.1 | 4.55 | 9.5 s |
| GPT Image 2 | 4.55 | 89 s |
| FLUX.2 [pro] | 4.42 | 11 s |
| Qwen Image 3 | 4.22 | 40 s |
| Ideogram V4.5 | 4.02 | 8.5 s |
| Krea 2 Turbo | 3.95 | 2.8 s |
| FLUX.2 [dev] | 3.92 | 6.1 s |
Every model gets the same prompt. Open one to compare all results side by side.
Street-level photo of a small corner café with a dark green painted facade, large windows and two bistro chairs outside. Gold lettering above the door reads "Maison Clair", and a chalkboard sign on the sidewalk reads "Fresh croissants".
![FLUX.2 [pro]: Café storefront with a sign](https://img.promptlineup.com/image/interior-architecture-cafe-front--flux-2-pro--s1-512.webp)
Architectural exterior photo of a two-story modern concrete and glass house at blue hour, warm interior lights glowing through floor-to-ceiling windows, a rectangular swimming pool in front reflecting the house, minimal landscaping.
![FLUX.2 [pro]: Modern house at blue hour](https://img.promptlineup.com/image/interior-architecture-house-dusk--flux-2-pro--s1-512.webp)
Luxury kitchen interior with a white marble island with gray veining, exactly three brass pendant lights in a row above it, dark green cabinets and two bar stools. Evening ambient light with the pendants switched on.
Interior design photo of a bright Scandinavian living room: a light gray sofa, an oak coffee table, a wool rug, a large window with sheer curtains and a fiddle-leaf fig plant in the corner. Soft overcast daylight, wide-angle view with vertical lines kept straight.
Bathroom interior with blue and white patterned cement floor tiles, a freestanding white bathtub, a round mirror above a wooden vanity and a brass faucet. Morning light from a small frosted window.
![FLUX.2 [pro]: Bathroom with patterned tiles](https://img.promptlineup.com/image/interior-architecture-tiled-bathroom--flux-2-pro--s1-512.webp)
Seedream 5.0 Pro by ByteDance scored highest in our tests: 4.7/5 across 5 prompts, at $0.101 per image.
Krea 2 Turbo costs $0.0080 per image on average and scored 4.0/5.
Krea 2 Turbo: 4.0/5 for $0.0080 per image, the highest score per dollar among the 10 models we tested.
Krea 2 Turbo, with a median 2.8 s from sending the request to receiving the finished image, queue time included.
Every model received the same 5 prompts with the same aspect ratio and default settings through the fal.ai API. Each image is scored from 1 to 5 on prompt adherence, aesthetics, text accuracy and artifacts by an AI judge and, once reviewed, by a human editor.